Pokemon Home Transfer Guide: How To Transfer From Pokemon Bank, Sword & Shield, And Let’s Go

Pokemon Home is now live on Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android devices. The new service lets you store Pokemon you’ve caught in various games in the cloud and bring them into the series’ latest installments, Sword and Shield. (You can even nab free Pokemon just for using the service.)

Through Pokemon Home, you can bring over Pokemon you have stored in Pokemon Bank on 3DS to the Switch, meaning it’s now possible to get a handful of non-Galar Pokemon in Sword and Shield, including other regional forms. However, the transfer process can be a little confusing, so we’ve put together this guide explaining how to move Pokemon from Bank and other games to Home.

Before we get into how to transfer your pocket monsters, it is recommended you first download Pokemon Home on your mobile device and link that to your Nintendo Account before doing the same on Switch. If you want to bring over monsters from Bank, you’ll also need to have a paid Pokemon Home subscription, as that is one of the features reserved exclusively for the premium plan. You can learn more in our Pokemon Home pricing guide.

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Fortnite Studio Epic Games Has A New President

Epic Games has a new president. Adam Sussman, who most recently worked at the sneaker and athletics company Nike, will be heading up the publisher. Sussman announced the news with a note on LinkedIn. An Epic Games spokesperson confirmed the move to GameSpot.

“While it’s bittersweet, I am so excited to join Epic and honored to be part of the remarkable team that has built one of the biggest games in the world,” he said. “2020 will be a big year… A Return to gaming, a move to North Carolina and an opportunity to help change the future of gaming.”

Sussman served as Chief Digital Officer at Nike. Prior to that, he was a senior VP at Zynga, a senior VP at Disney, and Vice President of Worldwide Publishing at EA.

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All Of Those Oscars Are Boosting Parasite At The Box Office

After Parasite cleaned up at the Oscars, winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture, people appear to be pretty hyped to see the movie in the theaters. According to Deadline, advance ticket sales for the film jumped 443% on Fandango by the end of the day on Monday after the Oscars. The film distributor Neon has also decided to show the film in over 2000 locations across America, despite being out on DVD already.

The film was already doing exceptionally well at the box office, making $35.5 million in North America before the Academy Awards, but after the Oscar win, analysts project it could make as much as $50 million, which would make it the fourth highest grossing non-English film of all time.

Parasite, a thriller about people from different classes colliding in Seoul, South Korea, is the first non-English-language film in Oscar history to win best picture. The film also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature. It was a pretty good night for all of Parasite’s cast and crew, including director Bong Joon-ho who upon his Oscar win, said he was ready to drink “until next morning”.

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Akira Live-Action Remake Might No Longer Be Made By Taika Waititi

The live-action remake of the manga and anime classic Akira has been in various stages of development over the past decade, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any closer to happening. Most recently, Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has been attached to write and direct the movie. But in a new interview, Waititi suggests that the movie is likely to be made without him.

Speaking to Variety, Waititi explained that delays to Akira meant that it ended up potentially clashing with work on his upcoming Marvel sequel, Thor: Love and Thunder. “The whole thing went on hold,” he said. “We had to keep pushing the dates, and it encroached on the Thor dates, which were immovable. So Akira ended up shifting two years down the track.”

Waititi went on to say that Akira was now so far off that he no longer knew if he would be still be involved. “So I’m not sure if even in two years I’d be–I don’t know what I’m doing in f***ing two days,” he said. “I think eventually it will happen. I’m just not sure if I’ll be doing it.”

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The History Of Nazi Zombies

With the release of Zombie Army 4: Dead War, Dave takes a look at the history of the Nazi zombie, and the bizarre occult links and myths that have helped inspire games like Call of Duty, Wolfenstein, and movies like Hellboy and Indiana Jones.

Disney+ Is Making A Mighty Ducks Show And In A Twist, The Ducks Are The Villains

Disney+ has ordered a 10-episode Mighty Ducks series and, somehow, the Ducks are the bad guys in this one. “You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” This must have been what Harvey Dent was talking about in The Dark Knight.

Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) and Brady Noon (Good Boys) will star in the series as a mother and son who have been wronged by everyone’s favorite hockey team. A description of the series from Disney+ reads, “In present-day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan (Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom Alex (Graham) set out to build their own ragtag team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of competitive youth sports.”

There’s no word about whether or not anyone from the original trilogy of movies will make an appearance on the show. Still, it would be exciting to know what happened to the likes of Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson) or Coach Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez).

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April Fool’s Joke Turned Game, Conan Chop Chop, Delayed Again

Multiplayer hack-and-slash roguelite Conan Chop Chop has suffered yet another delay. Instead of launching on February 25, it’s now expected to arrive sometime in “Q2 2020” (between April 1 and June 30) on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, developer Mighty Kingdom and publisher Funcom announced in a press release.

Conan Chop Chop was initially teased as an April Fools’ day joke during last year’s E3 before getting an official announcement trailer. The game is a crudely-drawn rendition of Conan the Barbarian, featuring stick figures instead of a more traditional art style. It’s a solo- and multiplayer romp that seems to share a lot in common with other hack-and-slash titles like Castle Crashers or Streets of Red: Devil’s Dare Deluxe.

Mighty Kingdom said the extra development time will allow the studio to optimize Conan Chop Chop for online multiplayer, as well as add some finishing touches to polish the overall experience. “It’s basically all about getting that final Chop in place,” studio head Philip Mayes said. “This isn’t merely a one-chop game. This is Conan Chop Chop, and that necessitates extra attention to detail.”

Pokemon Sword & Shield: How To Breed Regional Forms

Pokemon Home is now available, which means you can transfer Pokemon from old games into Sword and Shield. Currently, you can only transfer Pokemon that are in the Galar Pokedex; however, any regional forms a Pokemon has occupy the same Pokedex number as their normal form, meaning you can get some alternate forms in Sword and Shield via Home even if they weren’t originally available in the Galar region.

This includes Alolan Vulpix and Ninetales, whose original forms are already included in the Galar Pokedex, as well as regular Darumaka and Darmanitan, who gained Galarian forms in Gen 8. Before Pokemon Home, there was no way to get the alternate forms of these Pokemon in Sword and Shield. Once you transfer them in, though, it’s really easy to get more if you know how.

Normally, when breeding a Pokemon with alternate forms, the offspring will hatch as the form native to the region you’re in–so Vulpix will always be normal, because that’s the kind of Vulpix you can get in Galar. Once you transfer in an Alolan Vulpix, though, you can breed more Alolan Vulpix by giving it an Everstone to hold before putting it in the Nursery. This will pass down the parent’s form to the offspring (but it only works if the parent is female or if you’re breeding with Ditto). Below are all the Pokemon with alternate forms you can now get in Sword and Shield. Note that through in-game trades, you could already get regular Meowth, Yamask, and Mr. Mime without transferring them, as well as regular Persian and Cofagrigus through evolution.

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The Last Of Us Part 2: Ellie Edition, Limited-Edition Statue, T-Shirts, And More Great Merch

Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us was one of the best games of the last decade, so naturally The Last of Us Part 2 is one of the most anticipated games of 2020. Arriving May 29 on PS4, the action-adventure sequel will be one of the last PS4 exclusives before the PS5 takes center stage this holiday season. With a game as big as The Last of Us 2, you can bet that there’s some cool merch both on shelves now and available to pre-order.

We’ve rounded up all of the best The Last of Us Part 2-themed products you can buy. About half of the items you’ll find here are limited-edition, and it’s a safe bet that they will become sought-after collector’s items. You’ll have one more chance to pick up one of those collector’s items tomorrow, February 13 at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET. The Last of Us 2’s Ellie Edition will be restocked at all major US retailers and EB Games in Canada. But you will have to scoop one up quickly–pre-orders for the Ellie Edition sold out extremely fast last year. For more information on all of available editions, make sure to check out our The Last of Us Part 2 pre-order guide.

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